At 4:00 p.m. on Monday, Tokyo Metropolitan Police entered the second-floor residence, located in the Midorigaoka area, and found two severed heads inside an ice cooler. Several other ice coolers inside the premises contained other body parts. According to police, the body parts are from a total of nine persons.

The man is currently undergoing questioning on suspicion of abandoning one of the corpses. According to a previous report, he told police, “I did this several times before.”

Woman from Hachioji City

Police believe one of the bodies is believed to belong to a 23-year-old woman from Hachioji City. On October 21, the parents of the woman were unable to contact their daughter. Three days later, the older brother of the woman lodged a missing persons report with the Takao Police Station.

According to police, the woman posted a message on Twitter saying that she was seeking partners with whom to commit suicide as a group. She also is known to have corresponded with the man who lives in the residence, aged in his 20s, on at least one occasion on a site for people seeking to take their lives.

An examination of security camera footage taken at Odakyu Sobudai-Mae Station, which is located near the residence, on October 23 shows the woman with a person believed to be the undergoing questioning.